Post by Ginnie on Oct 12, 2007 21:21:20 GMT -4
Funny what stuff you come across on the web that you've never heard of...even in your own backyard!
I grew up in Newfoundland in the sixties in Topsail, a small town on the shores of Conception Bay. Four miles offshore was Bell Island, a small island that used to be a major producer of Iron ore until 1962.
It seems that in 1978 an mysterious event took place:
On April 2, 1978, there was a loud explosion on Bell Island that caused damage to some houses and the electrical wires in the surrounding area. Two cup-shaped holes about two feet deep and three feet wide marked the major impact. A number of TV sets in Lance Cove, the surrounding community, also exploded at the time of the blast. Weather men confirmed that atmospheric conditions at the time were not conducive to lightning. The blast was heard 45 kilometers away in Cape Broyle. Apparently U.S. Vela satellites picked up the event. The incident was investigated promptly by two representatives from a U.S. weapons laboratory at Los Alamos, according to the news media.(1)
It has been speculated that the explosion was ball lightning. However, a recent documentary aired on The History Channel about electromagnetic pulse weapons speculated that it may have been a result of top secret experiments by either the Russian or U.S. governments, involving high energy beams focused into the ionosphere that where attracted by the iron in abandoned mines.
What the...
The documentary called 'The Invisible Machine'
summarized thus:
On a calm Sunday morning in 1978 residents of Bell Island, Newfoundland hear an odd, high-pitched hum, immediately followed by a sudden and terrifying blast resounding for hundreds of miles. Outbuildings are destroyed, livestock electrocuted, televisions explode and power lines vaporize.
The Invisible Machine unravels the mystery of the Bell Island "boom" and in doing so takes a chilling look at the U.S. military's experimentation with electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapons.
You can watch it here:
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4515534125267138757&sourceid=docidfeed&hl=en
A promo for the documentary on You Tube can be found here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J15f4kVvcto
Has anyone ever heard of this event? This comes completely out of left field for me. Was it ball lightning or the U.S.?
More info here:
www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=20055
BTW: I was only on Bell Island once, about 5 years ago. It was a bright sunny day, when out of nowhere a hailstorm started up. It was so bad that I had to pull the car over to the side of the road. Huge hail pelted down for about ten minutes. Luckily there was no damage to the car.
I grew up in Newfoundland in the sixties in Topsail, a small town on the shores of Conception Bay. Four miles offshore was Bell Island, a small island that used to be a major producer of Iron ore until 1962.
It seems that in 1978 an mysterious event took place:
On April 2, 1978, there was a loud explosion on Bell Island that caused damage to some houses and the electrical wires in the surrounding area. Two cup-shaped holes about two feet deep and three feet wide marked the major impact. A number of TV sets in Lance Cove, the surrounding community, also exploded at the time of the blast. Weather men confirmed that atmospheric conditions at the time were not conducive to lightning. The blast was heard 45 kilometers away in Cape Broyle. Apparently U.S. Vela satellites picked up the event. The incident was investigated promptly by two representatives from a U.S. weapons laboratory at Los Alamos, according to the news media.(1)
It has been speculated that the explosion was ball lightning. However, a recent documentary aired on The History Channel about electromagnetic pulse weapons speculated that it may have been a result of top secret experiments by either the Russian or U.S. governments, involving high energy beams focused into the ionosphere that where attracted by the iron in abandoned mines.
What the...
The documentary called 'The Invisible Machine'
summarized thus:
On a calm Sunday morning in 1978 residents of Bell Island, Newfoundland hear an odd, high-pitched hum, immediately followed by a sudden and terrifying blast resounding for hundreds of miles. Outbuildings are destroyed, livestock electrocuted, televisions explode and power lines vaporize.
The Invisible Machine unravels the mystery of the Bell Island "boom" and in doing so takes a chilling look at the U.S. military's experimentation with electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapons.
You can watch it here:
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4515534125267138757&sourceid=docidfeed&hl=en
A promo for the documentary on You Tube can be found here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J15f4kVvcto
Has anyone ever heard of this event? This comes completely out of left field for me. Was it ball lightning or the U.S.?
More info here:
www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=20055
BTW: I was only on Bell Island once, about 5 years ago. It was a bright sunny day, when out of nowhere a hailstorm started up. It was so bad that I had to pull the car over to the side of the road. Huge hail pelted down for about ten minutes. Luckily there was no damage to the car.
